Implementation research in LMICs—evolution through innovation

Making Implementation More Democratic through Action Implementation Research

Public administration scholars often associate increased public participation in policy implementation with the advancement of democratic values. Likewise, scholars engaged in the various forms of action research (AR) promote their efforts as a means to democratizing the research process or contributing to improved social outcomes. Despite these common interests in participation and democracy, ...

Informing change & promoting innovation through rigorous & collaborative research

SmartSantander: Internet of Things Research and Innovation through Citizen Participation

The Smart City concept relates to improving efficiency of city services and facilitating a more sustainable development of cities. However, it is important to highlight that, in order to effectively progress towards such smart urban environments, the people living in these cities must be tightly engaged in this endeavour. This paper presents two novel services that have been implemented in orde...

Transforming Biomedical Research & Health Care Through Technology Innovation

The mission of the National Biomedical Computation Resource (NBCR) is toconduct, catalyze and enable multiscale biomedical research by harnessing advancedcomputation and data cyberinfrastructure through multidiscipline and multi-institutionalintegrative research and development activities. Here we report some recent advances enabledby tools from NBCR at multiple scales of biolog...

The impact of organizational innovation through innovation capabilities in ‎process and product on the performance of manufacturing firms

Abstract Innovation is considered as a critical factor for organizations to create value and ‎sustainable competitive advantage in today's complex and changing environment. ‎Organizations with more innovation, in response to the changing environments and ‎creating development of new capabilities that allows them to achieve better ‎performance will be more successful. The aim of curr...